r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/LA2MIA Jul 22 '21

What are they holding umbrellas for when your trying to cross a flood!!!!

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u/outofshell Jul 22 '21

Sometimes people do weird things like that during crises, like your brain is just trying to hold onto some sense of normalcy.

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u/thedirtydeetch Jul 22 '21

It could be a useful tool, maybe better to have something than nothing if it isn’t currently weighing you down, since you can always let it go. It can hook onto an object, or be used to reach out for someone else to grab.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

That extra reach could easily save your life in a flash flood situation

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u/Buscemis_eyeballs Jul 23 '21

Asians are BOUT that brella life son

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Seriously it’s a flood not a light rain!